Forces allied to Libya’s UN-backed prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj, have seized a key airbase from the renegade general Khalifa Haftar, dealing a huge strategic blow to the warlord’s year-long campaign to capture the capital, Tripoli. Haftar launched a new assault to unseat the …
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Tags : Libya, Fayez al-Sarraj, Khalifa Haftar,
Conflict in Libya has claimed the lives of tens of thousands, generated instability throughout North Africa and the Sahel, and become an increasingly pitched focal point for geostrategic competition. Since April 2019, the civil war in Libya has intensified particularly in the west of the country…
Read more from the source : Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Tags : Libya, civil war dimensions,
Retired general Khalifa Haftar stated his Libyan National Army (LNA) had a “popular mandate” to rule Libya and vowed to press his assault to seize Tripoli. In a televised address on his Libya al-Hadath TV channel, he announced “the general command is answering the will of the people…
Read more from the source : Aljazeera
Tags : Libya, GNA, LNA, Haftar,
On May 5, the EastWest Institute (EWI) and the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) hosted their third “Brussels MENA Briefing,” a series of after-work briefings on the MENA region, on the state of affairs of the ongoing Libyan Civil War. Speakers included…
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Tags : Libya, Berlin process,
One year after the resumption of the armed conflict in Tripoli, and at a time when the humanitarian situation in Libya continues to deteriorate due to further military escalation and the spreading of the Covid-19 virus, Amnesty International, the Italian Recreational and Cultural Association…
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Tags : Libya, border’s control, migration,
More than three months after the Berlin Conference, where some of the countries involved in Libya’s quagmire — re: Turkey, Russia, the UAE and Egypt — pledged to refrain ‘from interference in the armed conflict’ and little has, substantially, changed. The war still …
Read more from the source : Euro-Gulf Information Centre
Tags : Libya, Operation Irini,
Heavy shelling in residential areas of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, left at least three dead and a dozen wounded Saturday, according to official sources. Targets close to Mitiga International Airport, the only one functioning, included jet fuel tanks and passenger planes, and other sites…
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Tags : Libya, Tripoli shelling,
Among the bevy of great and middle powers involved in Libya, China is often neglected. It is not pouring in mercenaries or conducting airstrikes—like the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Russia—but China is steadily investing and exerting influence in ways that promote Libya’s eventual …
Read more from the source : Lawfare
Tags : Libya, China,
(Beirut) – An apparently unlawful drone attack by the United Arab Emirates that hit the Al-Sunbulah biscuit factory in Wadi al-Rabie, Libya, south of Tripoli, on November 18, 2019, killed 8 civilians and wounded 27, Human Rights Watch said today, after investigating the incident. The UAE…
Read more from the source : Bangladesh Sun
Tags : Libya, UAE,
Civil Liberties MEPs will hear about the conditions that thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers stranded in Libya are facing, often in locked camps and lacking the most basic provisions. They will also look into the situation at sea, following the establishment of the EU naval Operation Irini, which on 1 April succeeded Operation Sophia. According to UNHCR, so far …
Read more from the source : News European Parliament
Tags : Libya, migration, Europe,